Albert Einstein Quotes

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

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• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

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• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Violence
  • Command
  • Heroism